Database-Driven Web Development: Learn to Operate at a Professional Level with PERL and MySQL

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T. ValentineDatabase-Driven Web Developmenthttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-9792-6_1

1. Database-Driven Web Development Fundamentals

Thomas Valentine¹  

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Selkirk, MB, Canada

 

The database was first created by software engineers at North American Rockwell in the mid-1970s. They were previously using static files to catalogue the work they were producing. They began to notice that efforts were being duplicated, as a project such as the designing of an Apollo-era rocket generates hundreds of thousands of different parts. Each part was given a static file. Keeping track of these hundreds of thousands of parts was a nightmare before the relational database ...